Disney Princess Opinion Article

Why I'd like to have a princess who isn't thin

So this was a topic that was brought up a couple weeks nakaraan that brought on a big debate. There were people who sinabi a fat princess wouldn't be a good role model, that obesity kills people, that just because there's only thin princesses doesn't mean kids are going to worry about it, that the princesses have to be beautiful, etc.

I used to read a lot of books and watch a lot of tv growing up, mostly Harry Potter and Disney. As much as I pag-ibig the Harry Potter series and Disney movies, the way fat people are depicted is really upsetting. I mean there's Dudley who's described as being as fat as a baby orca and then there the comedy relief in Disney pelikula who are fat half the time (Mr Smee, Gus, Le Fou, etc) or there's times where the ugly people are fat (Ursula).

I've been chubby all my life and I've been made fun of for the rolls on my stomach and I've had to deal with comments about what I'd be eating. Half of the time it'd be from sisters and the other half from school. So seeing how fat people are depicted in media made me feel even worse about myself.

I know what some of you are going to say: "I was made fun of for how I look but I didn't try to change anything about myself!"

Here's the thing though; everyone is different. You can be made fun of for being too skinny and still not try to change anything about yourself, you can be made fun of for being too fat and still not try to change anything about yourself. There's people with a lot of confidence, and there's people with almost no confidence.

"But an obese princess could encourage kids to be overweight!"

Not if done right! There are people who are fat who are still healthy, it just takes forever to lose weight. If we had a princess who was overweight and wasn't shown eating in every scene she's in or at least be eating healthy foods then that could help encourage kids to eat healthier. Also Idk about you guys but it's not like skinny people in pelikula or books are great role mga model when it came to eating healthier too. There's been characters who eat what they want and still not gain a pound, what does that tell kids?

Examples:

"I wanna stuff some tsokolate in my face"

Almost every episode/movie these two are in they eat their weight in pagkain

Fun fact: My husband is chubbier than me. He weighs a couple hundred pounds but he's not unhealthy. In fact he's healthier than I am. He goes on madami walks than me, works out more, eats better (sometimes I just don't eat or I eat something unhealthy) and he loses only a little weight at a time. Me? I could almost pass for thin but I don't have the same routine as him. I don't eat breakfast like him (he almost always eats oatmeal), I rarely go on walks with him, and most of my diet consists of sandwiches, chips, and chocolate. I'll eat something healthy every now and then but it's not as much as my husband.

"But obesity kills people!"

True but you know what else kills peope? Anorexia and bulimia

"Princesses have to be beautiful!"

Please don't think this way, it's hurtful. Not everyone fits into the idea of beauty, there's going to be some fat people you don't think is pretty just like there's going to be skinny people you don't think is pretty.

Also it's also not that hard to make animated women of all shapes and sizes be beautiful. There's beautiful animated fat women, buff women, and short women

3 comments

I agree. My sister-in-law is prickly towards me. I look like my great, great, great aunts on my dad's side who were petite people with tiny bones. I have almost zero boobs. I think my sister-in-law suffered some kind of constant humiliation about her size from somebody close in her life. She easily talks to /feels comfortable interacting with my sister and my brother who are both buff and bigger-boned. I have tried multiple ways to interact with her...but my sister-in-law freezes me out a lot, and puts me down when I make any comments during family conversations and with others. I don't think I am the problem in her life, but she sure associates me with something awful from her past. I hate being blamed for my own genetics by someone who feels "fat-shamed." It's just...annoyingly petty to be dealt the exclusion card by someone who is part of your family now. She irks me in this regard. I just have decided to leave her alone.

I don't think we need skinny people to be made the sole focus of beauty. I LOVED how Kate Winslet looked in Titanic. She looked so healthy and so beautiful ( even though she did seem like she was in pain, and I learned later that it was because her then ex-boyfriend was dying of cancer during filming, and she was deeply in love with him). I also love how Serena Williams looks. And I thought that Lucy Lawless was fabulously hot back when she was playing Xena, and she STILL is hot! I am female. I find lots of bigger people very attractive. You don't need to be skinny to be beautiful.